5 Radical Principles for Excellent Work

Here’s a Radical™️ claim: there is a right way to do business.

Have you ever joined an organization that did something so well you thought, ‘Yes, this is how it should be handled at every company’?

Maybe it was onboarding, team meetings, operations, performance reviews, or something else entirely.

During my career spanning over a decade, I’ve distilled what I’ve observed into 5 Radical Principles that have elevated some companies above the rest.

✨ Radical Automation - Using artificial intelligence for anything that can be automated. Why do costly, time-sinking, repetitive work when it can be intelligently done for you? Harnessing this power properly can allow a team of 2 to produce the output of 100.

🧪 Radical Improvement - Always iterating and testing to get the best possible result. A/B test everything - there’s no reason not to. Find a winner, use that, and then try something else based on what you learned. Never stop learning.

💽 Radical Centralization - Unifying all available data into one source of truth to guide informed decision-making. There’s no reason information should live in silos. Everything should talk to each other. There are plenty of tools to bridge the gaps: and it’s only getting easier to do so.

🔎 Radical Transparency - Sharing knowledge of key metrics across the organization and even externally. Keeping some information obfuscated is old school thinking - why not build in public? Transparency increases trust, accountability, and allows for the Truth to be known.

💬 Radical Responsiveness - Quick, direct communication ensures continual progress towards objectives. Timely responses ensure team alignment without undue delay, even while working asynchronously.

This is a cross-post from LinkedIn. Also check out the Radical landing page.